I picked a good day there is a lot going on right now. Tons a Brass Quartet from the milwaukee symphony over there and extreme wrestler Tommy Dreamer is here somewhere. I hope he didnt bring his bat. He has a spiked bat i think he is known for. Thats what i heard. I bet he brought it. And a huge motorcycle over there in the studio were chatting with the former miss america. Thats right. And were going to start off right away with Laura Kaeppeler fleiss. After being and miss wisconsin she went on to win miss america. Shes doing something exciting. Good to have you back. Thank you so much for having me. How does it feel to be home . Its good it feels like the holidays. Cold weather, Christmas Lights make sense in the cold. Cold weather because you are not living in wisconsin now. Where do you live now . Why are you living there . Because we love it. Its small and simple and whole. We want to give that childhood to our son. Have you a little one i was going to say. Look how cute is he. That was on his first birthday. He is how old now a year and a half. Yeah about a year and a half. Hes adorable look at you. How do you like being a mother . Its the best. Et cetera changed me for all the better. Its the world, but, hes the best. There is nothing like it. How cool for a kid to grow up on kuai. He want him to be a great surfer and great waterman. You know what else is cool bringing him home to kenosha. Wisconsin vibes. Where im from he has got to come and all of my family is here so we visit a lot. Its exciting speaking of we, creator of the bachelor and the bachelorette. Pretty darn cool. Do you get to know things or does everything get kept a secret from you. Do you have to tight lip yourself . I mean, yes. [laughter] but no i cant share things. No of course. No im really proud of him he works really hard and nick is the bachelor. He has been on our show. His sister maria comes on all the time. I have heard, he is doing really well and hopefully he finds love and is happy in the end of it. Thats what we hope for him right . Of course he seems like a great guy. Its about time for him right . Yes. Three times now the fourth time were excited for him to come back on the show too. Thats exciting. I want to know because your husband created the bachelor, bachelorette which is a huge romantic series. He is. Is he really . Yes. Is he big into roses too . I get a fair amount of roses yeah. Give us an example what is something romantic he is known for . Um, well we, this is kind of on the spot. He is wonderful. Hes a great dad and you know we take a lot of really great trips and we go to a lot of really beautiful places he is the one who introduced me to kuai thats where we fell in love. I love that. You know what is cool i was telling tiffany i was very young we wont say how young when terry was crowned miss america. From wisconsin. And when you were crowned i remember thinking it was so cool and about time that we had another miss america from wisconsin. Thank you. Thank you. Thats what were hoping to do with miss kenosha pageant. This is kind of unprecedented for a miss america to come back and work on the local level. State or the national pageant. Youre coming back there you are wins miss america. Were coming back and working on the local level in kenosha. You took the pageant over. The pageant was going to potentially go away. What did it mean to you to come back and do that why did you make that decision . It was in danger of cancellation and kenosha is my hometown. Its where im from. Its a Wonderful Community of people that have given so much to me and so much to my family. Its a very small w give back to my community, but the kenosha pageant is also where it started for me. And a lot of people dont realize it does start at the local level. Hi a great experience and i am excited to hopefully give you know great experiences to the contestants and the future miss kenosha. It was kind of a no brainer for me. Were out of time, but how often will you be back with that program . I will be doing a lot from a distance, but i will be back for ready for miss wisconsin. I will be back quite a bit. Exciting. Well have to have you come back on the show. I know youre looking for contestants. Its saturday april 1 at 7 00 p. M. In kenosha. You can find out more by visiting their Facebook Page as well. If you win or compete you will have a chance to work with laura, how cool to work with a miss america. Thank you for having me. Before show were sure everyone is going to love todays arts cameras plus picture of the day picture of the day. First time proud grandma debby shared this photo of her twin grandsons grant and parker. Debbys daughter jessica took this photo as a possible christmas card. The twins were born 12 weeks early at a pound and a half. 2 1 2 pounds sorry. Spent the first 11 weeks at the nicu at childrens hopsital of wisconsin. 10 pounds. Later in the show well hear more about the great things Childrens Hospital does. We wanted to share that beautiful picture. Thats an adorable picture. Isnt that sweet . So sweet. Thank you for sharing. Well today we are breaking the mold on gift giving. Going on right now at Harley Davidson dealerships throughout the area, they are celebrating the 12 days of badness. Uhhuh. Goran zadrima is here with some of their great ideas. Y little closer. How are you today . Good. How are you . Im great. This is a whole christmas for people on the naughty list right . Pretty much. We like to say, this year santa busted the doors down and unloaded 12 days of badness promotion on us. So um, from black friday through december 6, well, we have cool Something Special we post on our social media so you can see it and pick it up for the ones good or bad. This is going on right now . 12 days of badness. This is so great. Lets talk about some of the things you brought today. You brought really cool stuff. Everybody here loves harley so what can people get for the holidays . We have a couple examples here. Ladies and guys leather jackets. These are lightweight jackets. Im going to hold it up. You can use them to ride your moto around too. Is it lightweight . They are extremely light yes. Isnt that beautiful . Thats fantastic. So light. The best thing about these jackets during the promotion, these jackets actually are up to 40 . I was going to ask. Less than usual. This is why. December 6 you have time to get good stuff. There what else did you bring here . Well, you know, if somebody already has a jacket or a mike setup its called boom audio. You can attach it to a motorcycle that doesnt have an audio system. Water proof speakers plug in your ipod, iphone whatever you want to. So you have music. Thats a great idea. All motorcycles dont come with Audio Systems right . That is correct. I didnt know that either. We have touring bikes that come with navigation all of that which we might show you later. That sounds good. How about these bags here . This is one of my favorite its a messenger bag. Can you carry it to go to work and back also you can attach it on the back of your motorcycle. How nice. Its a full open right there. There it is extremely nice. Very nice. You can slide it over the back rest and attack it to you dont have to carry it on your back when you ride. Really nice travel bags as well. You notice for safety. So you can be noticeable when you ride the motorcycle. Wonderful shirts. We brought you a few shirts. We have a lot more cool stuff, but i was limited to what could come with me. People need to stop in and see everything that is going on to really be able to do their shopping and experience most of the things have a steep discount. Yes. Also, which i like to mentions that you know, if you cant see something you really like in the store there is always that you know certificate for riding academy. Oh, the lesson. We can teach you how to ride a motorcycle by the best instructors out there. After that youre good to go get yourself a bike and enjoy it. Think we should get rid of this table we have something behind there we need to show. Get rid of it joe. Come on joe. There you go. This is what weve got hiding back here what have you got for street light special in a hard candy paint. Its hot rod red flake. This is also all new engine called milwaukee 8. Its quite a big deal. Somebody on the naughty list is going to get this . Um yes. Yes. Yes. How many of these do you have . Is this something you have very few for people to purchase . The model in general its pretty available. This particular amount of them made. And um, they are still around, but not as frequent as the other ones. But yeah. What do you think of this you like it . Cameraman dave wants it. I dont have to take it back with me then its fine. This paint if you look at it has so much flake in it its beautiful. Also milwaukee 8th which is a huge improvement over previous the best bike. We have heard people have been talking about the milwaukee its amazing its huge for, harley hasnt done a huge Engine Upgrade for over ten years this is a really big deal for us. This one comes with audio and naive fashion. Comes witha brandnew suspension system. Comes with audio and naive fashion. Comes with a brandnew suspension system. 12 days of bad you have to go visit to take advantage of all of these great gifts. Thanks. Appreciate it. Weve got a great show coming up including this amazing story of survival. One of these twins wasnt expected to live. Wel you what the hospital staff did that went outside of their normal protocol to save her life. A Brass Quartet from the well share some of the fun things they have planned for the holidays. Thats right up next, give the gift of glam from skincare to makeup unique packages for welcome back to the Morning Blend where we want to know if what is in your makeup bag is holiday ready. There is a gift for every glamour girl this Holiday Season. Whether you want to give her the gift of beauty or youre like me and plan to buy a little Something Special for yourself. Our guests can hp with all of that. Debby and vicky are back to tell us how they do christmas from merle norman. Good morning guys. I think i agree anytime i Holiday Shopping i have to pick a Little Something up for myself too. How can you not . I know. We have great gift sets perfect for gift giving or yourself. Absolutely. Lets talk about some of that. Holiday season everybody wants to buy something for the girl. Glamour girl. My nieces they love getting products. Introducing it to people who are young is important, but all the way to my mom in her 70s to have i think our gifts collection is very universal. There is something for all ages. One of the things we came out with that is just amazing, is our brush set. The brush set okay. I love that case to start. Hold that case up. The case is just, its like wow. Beautiful. And the brushes are, hold it up a little bit there you go. They are all regular size brushes. This is my favorite brush ever. I use it every day. Can you pull one out a our regular brushes have a little longer handle. Like the shorter handle because since my eyes arent as good as they used to be i need to sit a little closer to the mirror. [laughter] the shor shorter handle realy does work well. Its supposed to be a travel pack is that why its shorter . Yes. You have to get the foundation brush. If you tip it up a little bit you can see how it is angled here. Application of your foundation. I use it every single morning. Once you use good makeup brushes verses the bad ones. And there are so many bad ones. Its such a difference on how the makeup goes on. If you take good care of your brushes they last for years. Its really a wonderful investment. Are these washable did i read . You can wipe it off. There is a blush brush, eye shadow and eye l everything you would need for travel its wonderful. Perfect what else do you have for sets . We also have our two skincare sets. We have the wrinkle smoother in there which relaxing the fine lines stops more fine lines from coming. Vitamin hd and e in it. Time release moisture. Apteand the new antiaging the fl i love that dry oil serum. Thats in your perfect advanced skin set right . Yeah. There you have the antiaging complex products. The dry oil serum. I love it. Its so wonderful. Its fantastic. It doesnt feel greasy you can wear it during the day or at night and it really republicans. Helps. Using dry oils its an where you would think you cant use something oily on your skin, but it does penetrate and very effective for winter dryness. That has your eye cream and night cream. That is usually 150 its now for the holidays only 70. Thats great price point. You have another kit. A starter kit tell us what thats all about. The skin essentials has the skin refinery cleanser, the it was a pep tide that helps relax the muscles around the eyes and mouth so it softens the fine lines. The other one the advanced one with the dry oil is going to be a little more kind of a getting out the big guns. Yeah. Antiaging. When you need them. So the skin essentials one which were looking at there as well is an 86 value and right now its just 50. Thats a wonderful deal. That is. Its really great. Tagged and ready for purchase. Got to have sparkles for the holidays. Those are cute. One is the shimmers and one is kisses. The shimmers are, its a gold and like a pearl eye shadow. Can you mix it with your body lotion, you can put it on your face, your eyes. This one is the lipstick and they have a shimmer in the middle of it. There hold that real still. Its got another little color inside. One has the core of silver one a core of gold. How fun. Really fun. Those are just 30 for the ornaments. Yeah. So great little gifts perfect Stocking Stuffer perfect gift for the little one in your life or someone that would love a little update in their merle norman. Or yourself. Or yourself. You can get Gift Certificates as well. Heres where you can stop in to a merle norman near you. There are merle norman studios in brookfield corners, west bend, and oconomowoc as well. So, make sure you stop by merle norman. Com. You can stop in to get express facial do all of the fun things they offer around the holidays or upupdate. Thanks ladies. Happy holidays. Appreciate it. Still ahead on the show today the incredible story of these twin girls. One of them was not breathing when she was born. Coming up were going to tell you the special requests their dad made that may have saved their life. Symphony orchestra is going to be busier than santas elfs this Holiday Season. After the break well tell you all about the Family Friendly event they have coming up. But first here is a Brass Quartet with a sample of their holiday cheer. Take it away you guys. . . Attention Medicare Beneficiaries living in these. Now is the time to review your current medicare coverage. Whatever your Health Coverage needs, call now and let unitedhealthcare help find a plan that could give you the benefits and stability youre looking for. Like an aarp medicarecomplete plan insured through unitedhealthcare. It can combine medicare parts a and b. Which is your hospital and doctor coverage. With part d Prescription Drug coverage and more. This Medicare Advantage plan offers you. Visits to your primary care doctor for a low 15 copay. Theres more. 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This may look like a show right out of las vegas, but its just one of the many Family Friendly events planned with milwaukee Symphony Orchestra this Holiday Season. Thats right the mso has a month full of fun filled shows here to tell about it is president mark niehaus along chafetz and also we have david cohen. Wave and megumi kanda. Thank you guys. They are going to play for you in a bit. Thats why they have their instruments here. This is huge you have a whole Holiday Season filled with so much cool stuff. We pack the month of december filled with music. Music is very important to people during the holidays also one of the best times if you have not been to the symphony before its a perfect gateway. Bring your kids bring yr parents its for everybody of all ages we have something for everyone this time of year. Everyone gets stressed out you go to the symphony you probably have the lights. Christmas tree, the bells, the chorus. Its s spectacular. You have three things right . This saturday in the afternoon were going to have above the orchestra it choreographed with the music. All weekend, stu maestro stu will be conducting. Its exciting talk about being here back to the mso why did you want to come back and work with our program here . I was resident here and it feels like coming back to family. What is this month all about family. The spirit of giving and what is the best gift the gif i love that. Yeah so weve got a fantastic show. There is so much talent on stage between the symphony chorus, the hand bell ensemble, fantastic broadway singer youre going to love her. This is all the holiday pop show. Yeah thats just the holiday pop. There is something for everybody and it is Family Friendly. You get to sing a little bit you get to have a good time and all of that holiday cheer. The audience gets to sing along right . Absolutely how could we stop so the holi